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The notion that the term of governance refers to new processes but involves existing government has much currency (Finer in Comparative government. Allen Lane, London, 1970; Jayal and pai in Democratic Governance in India: Challenges of Poverty, Development and Identity. Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2001). In fact, the output of governance is not very different from government (Stoker in International Social Science Journal 50(155):17–27, 1998). In substantial scholarship available on the subject, the changing nature of government and, therefore, of the state is inevitably an object of analysis.
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In India this has reference to not only the Executive Branch or government departments within the federal government structure, but also the Judiciary which is an important institutional player in the country’s governance because of perceived inabilities of the executive and the legislature to enforce regulations.
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For example, majority ownership of all forestlands rests with the federal government.
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Sekher, M., Parasuraman, S., Kattumuri, R. (2018). Understanding Governance as a Process. In: Sekher, M., Parasuraman, S., Kattumuri, R. (eds) Governance and Governed. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5963-6_2
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